There is a move in Congress to install term-limits on The US Supreme Court.
The Congressman Jerry Nadler has filed a three page bill that would cap the term a Supreme Court Justice could serve at 18 years.
The measure comes about a month after a decision by the US Supreme Court to move abortion rights to the states.
“Instituting term limits for Supreme Court Justices will help re-balance the bench and restore the public’s trust in our nation’s highest court.,” said Rep. David Cicilline, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law. “We must address the crisis currently facing the Court in terms of its legitimacy and the public’s confidence in it. This legislation is an important step to restoring the Court’s important role in our constitutional system.”
The bill is also similar to one that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse had proposed last year.
Whitehouse is expected to introduce the bill in the Senate as well.
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